Island Of No Return Lyrics - Billy Bragg

Digging all day and digging all night 

To keep my foxhole out of sight 

Digging into dinner on a plate on my knees 

The smell of damp webbing in the morning breeze 

Fear in my stomach, fear in the sky 

I eat my dinner with a weary eye 

After all this it won't be the same 

Messing around on Salisbury Plain 

Pick up your feet, fall in, move out 

We're going to a party way down South 

Me and the Corporal out on a spree 

Damned from here to eternity 

I hate this flat land, there's no cover 

For sons and fathers and brothers and lovers 

I can take the killing, I can take the slaughter 

But I don't talk to Sun reporters 

I never thought that I would be 

Fighting fascists in the Southern Sea 

I saw one today and in his hand 

Was a weapon that was made in Birmingham 

Pick up your feet, fall in, move out 

We're going to a party way down South 

Me and the Corporal out on a spree 

Damned from here to eternity